Office programs must be the most used programs together with internet browsers in any home office.
Since the release of the 2.x version I use OpenOffice to avoid the high cost of the commercial office suites. And I learned that OO is just a brilliant alternative office program. Little sidenote
you can save a document in OO with the built-in module save as.. to PDF with just one click.
During the first week online of OpenOffice 3 were already 3 million downloads recorded, with around 80% windows users upgrading or trying OpenOffice.
The look and feel is very similar to MS Office so the learning is not too hard.
The OpenOffice team prepared a presentation (OpenOffice 2), check it here.
On october 30. there is a big update of my Ubuntu Linux installation due and right after that I will upgrade to OpenOffice 3 as well.